LINCOLN - After finishing a guidebook about local rivers, Ron McAdow wrote his first novel about the shifting currents of feeling that bind a marriage and family.Like his natural history of the Concord, Sudbury and Assabet rivers,...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett will read his poetry Thursday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Acton-Boxborough Regional High School auditorium.Padgett’s appearance highlights his selection for the 15th Annual Robert Creeley Award...

While some eager viewers are champing at the bit (or ball gag, as the case may be) for this weekend’s big-screen release of “50 Shades of Grey,” we’re more in the mood for levity than the lash. If the raunch of this...